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  • Monterey County kickstarts Youth Civic Engagement Program

    February 26, 2021 |

    Voices of Monterey Bay |

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    Response Location: United States, Monterey Bay, California

    College students in Monterey Bay are pairing up with K-12 classrooms to teach students about civic engagement. The college students are then invited to give presentations during class time on topics ranging from the census to environmental justice. The program is a partnership between California State University - Monterey Bay and the Monterey County Office of Education, and also helps students fulfill a required community service credits.

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  • Singapore Turns To Cultured Meat To Boost Its Food Security

    February 26, 2021 |

    Life & Thyme |

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    Response Location: Singapore

    Singapore recently became the first country in the world to allow cultured meat to be sold to the public, a move that scientists and environmentalists say is the future of meat production. U.S.-based company Eat Just takes stem cells from live tissue, mixes it with a broth, and puts it into a bioreactor to allow the cells to multiply and form connective tissue. While cultured meat can be expensive to produce, they sold its chicken — a maple waffle chicken dish and crispy chicken bao — to diners for $17.

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  • The EV tax credit can save you thousands — if you're rich enough

    February 26, 2021 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States

    A tax credit was supposed to incentive Americans to buy electric vehicles, but testimony from car buyers and research has shown that only people who can afford the full purchase are getting access to the benefit. The tax break gives electric car purchasers a credit on their taxes the following year, but only as much as they owe the government. The purchase could end up costing more than buyers expected, which can be a barrier for people who want to switch to electric.

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  • Czech City Eases Burden on Migrants

    February 26, 2021 |

    Deník Referendum |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic, Brno

    Intercultural city workers act as bridges between public institutions and the Arab, Moldovan/Romanian, and Russian-speaking, and Vietnamese communities. They accompany clients to government offices, where their presence makes officials more open to working them, and also to healthcare visits. The workers conduct field visits, communicate via social media, and form relationships with prominent community members. They foster inclusion by helping immigrant communities learn the social norms while also informing public institutions about the social needs of the communities.

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  • An AI is training counselors to deal with teens in crisis

    February 26, 2021 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Crisis hotlines and chat services are turning to technologies such as AI tools to help assist an oft-overburdened system. At The Trevor Project, AI is used as both a risk assessment tool and as a role-play simulator to train volunteer counselors to correspond with callers. Users of these tools stress that they are not a replacement for counselors, but rather a tool to help the humans in these roles.

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  • 'Solidarity, not charity': Mutual aid groups are filling gaps in Texas' crisis response

    February 26, 2021 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Texas mutual aid groups raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help people with food, housing, and other supplies after natural disasters, which are increasing due to climate change. Organizers go door-to-door and use social media to identify people in need of assistance, particularly people impacted by structural inequalities in low-income communities, communities of color, and people with insecure housing. Donors, most of whom also come from the community, help with cash or goods donations. Recipients aren’t means-tested and the neighbors-helping-neighbors model allows for quick and passionate action.

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  • 43 Cases, No Convictions: Prosecuting the Police Falters in New York

    February 26, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    In the more than five years since New York's governor ordered the attorney general to take charge of investigations and prosecutions when police kill unarmed people, only three police officers have been charged with crimes and none has been convicted. By taking control of such cases away from local prosecutors, officials hoped to instill greater trust in outcomes, because of the close ties local prosecutors have with local police. But the narrow scope of the rule establishing the special prosecutions unit, plus a host of other systemic and legal barriers, have meant that the outcomes have not changed.

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  • Išskirtinė situacija Suomijoje – kaip, apgyvendinus 15 benamių, šaliai pavyksta sutaupyti beveik 225 tūkst. eurų

    February 26, 2021 |

    Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) |

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    Response Location: Finland

    Suomijoje drastiškai sumažėjo benamių. Finansiškai atsiperkanti Vyriausybės programa, pagal kurią namų neturintiems žmonėms suteikiami būstai, ne tik sprendžia benamystės problemą, bet ir padeda žmonėms grįžti į visuomenės gyvenimą. Įdomiausia, kad ilgainiui ji padeda valstybei sutaupyti lėšų, kurios būtų skirtos įvairioms paslaugoms benamiams teikti, jei namų jie neturėtų.

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  • One Relationship at a Time: Restorative Justice Initiatives in West Harlem are Rewriting Legacies of Violence and Mass Incarceration

    February 26, 2021 |

    Columbia Daily Spectator |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The largest police raid in New York City history did little to resolve a decades-long conflict between residents of two Harlem housing projects, nor did it address the underlying problems causing violence in the community. So two community groups, supported by grants from the Manhattan district attorney, have deployed intervention teams to de-escalate and mediate disputes. They also provide an array of services to give young people alternatives to fighting and to assist people who were arrested in the raids as they emerge from prison.

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  • How this Queens community built $1,000 college savings accounts for all its kids

    February 25, 2021 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A nonprofit in New York is helping communities provide economically disadvantaged children with a financial pathway to college. Kids in school district 30 are given $1000 each in a college-saving fund with initial money invested by the nonprofit and much of it raised through community members and businesses. The initiative was started to help bridge the racial wealth gap in the city.

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